A tool of the Cyprus Police intended to make life easier for citizens since at least yesterday is available online.
This is the digital project Digipol that simplifies the procedures for all those who wish to obtain official certificates from the police force and beyond.
Now, the citizen does not need to bother and waste time going to a Police service, since he will be able to digitally submit applications to receive certificates from the comfort of his office and home.
More specifically, applications for a certificate of clean criminal record, issuance of an official document concerning a traffic accident, police reports of the Traffic Police, and even copies of witness material for a procedure, can now be made by citizens online.
As long as they have an account in the single identification system of the Republic of Cyprus for access to electronic government services. The reason for the well-known "CyLogin", which citizens already use to submit applications digitally, such as the one concerning the annual student grant.
To find out yesterday whether this digital project was put into operation, we visited digipol.police.gov.cy website and after first registering in "CyLogin" we entered the system. We registered a request by filling in the necessary fields and received an email notification of receipt of our request.
At a recent press conference of the Cyprus Police, it was announced that through the portal GOV.CY #DigiPol gives access to more than 30 services of the Police Force.
The project started to be implemented in June 2021, while the timetable set provided for completion by spring 2026. The cost of its implementation amounted to €8 million. It is funded by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility under the Cyprus Recovery and Resilience Plan and was under the close monitoring of the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy.
The funds were secured by the Police Finance Directorate, as part of its efforts to modernize the Force, through participation in funded or co-financed projects.
The strategy of the Police for modernization by securing funding from European programs had been analyzed in previous statements to "F" by the deputy director of the Police Finance Directorate, Police Officer B, Chryso Angeli. The latter had set up an office to take advantage of the funding opportunities offered by the European Union. Speaking to our newspaper, he had spoken of a great effort being made to secure funding and implementation of projects such as Digipol, hastening to underline that these efforts have the corresponding effect, as, as he had explained, there is a "net benefit for the citizen".
The police force is expected to benefit the most from the implementation of the project. As previously announced, the implementation of Digipol will result in "the Police maximizing the capabilities of its human resources by reducing the administrative cost of transactions with citizens, but also by improving procedures aimed at cleaning up bureaucracy".
